AN URGENT CALL TO ACTION

24 March 2011

ReAct´s Otto Cars was one the leading experts on antibiotic resistance that were invited to lecture at the Antimicrobial Resistance Summit 2011 held in Sydney on February 7-8. The conference report "Antibiotic resistance is an emerging threat to public health: an urgent call to action at the Antimicrobial Resistance Summit 2011" is now available for download. 

Professor Cars presentation "Defining the Problem - an International Perspective" set off the summit,arranged by the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases and the Australian Society for Antimicrobials, with the aim to achieve a dialogue for national control strategies and to formulate an agenda for minimising antimicrobial resistance in the future.

Download conference report Antibiotic resistance is an emerging threat to public health: an urgent call to action at the Antimicrobial Resistance Summit 2011 (pdf 173 KB)

Watch the video, The Superbug Threat, with interviews and comments from the summit. Australian ABC 7.30 Report

Download presentations from the conference Antimicrobial Summit 2011

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